Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study or systematic classification of types that have characteristics or traits in common.
- noun A theory or doctrine of types, as in scriptural studies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine of types or symbols; a discourse on types, especially those of Scripture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Theol.) A discourse or treatise on types.
- noun (Theol.) The doctrine of types.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
systematic classification of thetypes of something according to theircommon characteristics - noun archaeology the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
- noun linguistics linguistic typology
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun classification according to general type
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Examples
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The structure's octagonal, centralized typology, is also troubling.
Two Unfortunate and Unnecessary Cathedral Extensions in Australia 2009
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Another typology is Publicist as Biggest Fan, where the publicist, after a ten-hour workday, is the only person who shows up for the author's reading.
Publicist as Psychotherapist: Recognizing and Treating Author Personality Disorders 2006
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Another typology is Publicist as Biggest Fan, where the publicist, after a ten-hour workday, is the only person who shows up for the author's reading.
September 2006 2006
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This kind of parallelism is called typology, or symbolic exegesis.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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This kind of parallelism is called typology, or symbolic exegesis.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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“Comparison” is here not comparison for comparison's sake (i.e., what in linguis - tics is usually called typology or typological compari - son) but for the sake of retrieving a past, linguistic or evolutionary as the case may be.
LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968
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Tony, I was referring to the American "bible" on class, Paul Fussell's classic treatise: "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" and some popular works based on his typology, which is:
Page 3 2006
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Tony, I was referring to the American "bible" on class, Paul Fussell's classic treatise: "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" and some popular works based on his typology, which is:
Page 3 2006
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It is often said that allegory, outside the specifically historical mode known as typology, is antihistorical.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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But in Wood's own "typology" of humor, the "gentle" comedy he likes seems unavoidably sentimental to me.
Comedy in Literature 2010
frindley commented on the word typology
A typology of Wordies might begin by looking at the propensity for listing versus contribution of citations.
April 11, 2008
asativum commented on the word typology
Further broken down between useful listings or citations and mere sniping from the gallery.
Put me down for the sniping section.
April 11, 2008
mollusque commented on the word typology
Don't forget tagging (see discussion there). Some Wordies are more taghappy than others.
April 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word typology
I think the main activities engaged in by Wordies are: listing, citing, sniping from the gallery, list-making, tagging, and self-analysis.
April 11, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word typology
I consider myself among the "well-balanced wordies". (Do they exist?)
April 11, 2008
reesetee commented on the word typology
Wow. Some major omphaloskepsis here, all right. ;-)
April 12, 2008
asativum commented on the word typology
Better than omphalosepsis, I suspect. But yes, I aspire to be a leading omphalologist.
April 14, 2008
mollusque commented on the word typology
Omphalosepsis? I had no idea introspection could be so dangerous.
April 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word typology
What I know is that soon we'll have an omphalological list.
April 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word typology
There must be a word for the strong urge to turn a Wordie discussion into a list. ;-)
April 14, 2008
gangerh commented on the word typology
Your comment here, reesetee, apart from being fun, has co-incided with a thought I had this morning. I'm posting on features.
April 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word typology
Of course it exists... from now on: logocladogenesis* (and logocladogenesimania).
*"creating a (new) branch out of a word".
April 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word typology
And, for those who don't like Greek*: wordstem cutting. So sad you don't use talea for stem cutting (in Italian, I would suggest talea listatoria that sounds so Latin).
*I can hardly think of something so... against nature.
April 14, 2008
1313832015 commented on the word typology
I use and see this word a lot, but not in a religious sense. Wikipedia's definition is adequate (and public domain):
a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features
October 31, 2009